With how tense the last couple of expeditions have been I was rather thrilled to see this one was all about fishing. I went around the universe looking for different hidden fishing spots. I got some legendary size fish during my time on the expedition as well.

As someone who has never or rarely done any fishing in No Man’s Sky, I have never seen the need for it. It was kind of fun to see this redux of the Aquarius expedition pop up. It gave me a great opportunity to learn more about something I hardly ever used this even went far beyond just fishing along with some of the other aspects that involve the waters of the game.

First, before the expedition started, I needed to return from the last one. I sent some good backs. I then reloaded the cargo for Expedition 15. Some of the harder-to-get resources are getting a bit thin on the one character I've been running all the expeditions off.

It looks like I might have to during some downtime do extra grinding on that main save for that character. Thankfully during Aquarius, there was again not a large amount of warping required to get to all five secret fishing locations. I did however have to stop a few times to gather resources to make warp cells which slowed me down a bit.

It was then going time and the usual. You land on a planet with a ship that needs some repairs. This one just needed the basics of thrusters and landing gear. It was a rather quick run to my ship. With a backstory that someone had sold it in good condition and now I found myself using it. I was just thrilled to not need to stay around long repairing it.

Once I made it into space, I did a quick overview of all the milestones for this expedition. It also looked like the main rewards from this one were some armor skins. Not something I felt I really needed or would even use in the future. I however set out a goal to do as many of these redux expeditions while given the chance.

I was also a little shocked to see that just getting out of the first system would not finish off most or all of the first phase of milestones. It did very little. Instead, I needed to make my way to the first secret fishing spot.

This one would also not require building any advanced hyperdrives either. The extra resources I brought along to do so would sit waiting on my cargo at the Anomaly. I would however in good time hit it up for things like copper and other resources.

One of the early milestones just for getting into space and off the first planet gave you everything that was needed for a hyperdrive. Along with some starting material to make your first warp.

After jumping to some other systems, I quickly found myself needing to land on a planet in search of warp fuel material. It would not be my last such adventure down to a random planet looking for what I needed.

This was also the first time I stopped to get a good look at my character. He sure looks like some swamp creature that would spend all day and night fishing. I’m so glad he ended up fitting in so well for this expedition.

I was also out looking for the materials needed to craft a fishing rod. I don’t ever recall doing so before. Even better by the end of this, I'd get some special fishing rod that I believe any characters on my account will now get access to as well since I did this expedition.

What was not that impressive was the multi-tool or ship you get for this one. I found them both rather boring. At least the ship was able to do some combat and get me out of any harm's way of pirates I'd run into during this expedition.

I’d look around for any lakes or oceans on a planet as well. I figure since I was already down there looking for resources. I might as well do some fishing there and hope it checks some random milestones off for me. Before I need to start focusing my efforts on individual milestones.

As some milestones were easy enough to do without needing to think about them. Like catching some fish during the night. Selling 300k worth of fish at a station. Catching fifty fish in total. All of these were quite easy.

Even more so since fish ended up taking up a decent chunk of inventory space. I would end up cooking them up to almost triple their selling value as well. That made it easy to afford to buy suit upgrades at the stations. I made sure to stop by each station in every system as I went toward the next secret fishing location.

There would be five of these spots in total I'd need to get out to. Once there I needed to find some water to fish in. Sometimes that was easy and other times I needed to fly around the planet a bit to find such spots.

In each of them, I was after a message in a bottle. It talked about some strange things in more or less answering the call of fishing and finding that special fishing spot. That is putting it lightly but the person who wrote the messages sounded like they went insane.

There then came the part of the expedition where I just got to sit around and do quite a bit of fishing. I had enough resources to keep me going for a while. I did not need much else. It was just time to start fishing.

While over time I'd need to go fishing on certain types of planets for some of the milestones. Early on I just found a spot and I ended up fishing there for a couple of in-game day and night cycles filling up my inventory.

I’d first start just fishing from shorelines. After a while, I had finished a milestone that gave my spaceship an upgrade to land on water. I’d use that as a mobile fishing platform for quite some time.

Many of the milestone rewards were quite into giving me underwater upgrades so I could stay down there longer. From cold protection to oxygen systems. Before this thing was done, I would be able to survive for quite some time underwater.

That I felt was a little odd. You can’t cast the fishing rod if you are in the actual water itself. What you would however do while in the water was release some fish you had already caught. As it turns out that was yet another milestone and an easy one at that to do quite early on.

Final Thoughts

My first little while on the expedition was quite relaxing. Fishing in games or even in real life in general is quite a relaxing activity. Even without using any bait at the start, I managed to catch over fifty fish in a rather short amount of time.

This expedition also made me a bit lazy in No Man’s Sky. A few times I did not even want to leave whatever random spot I found to go fishing at. I’d just cast the fishing rod, and wait for the fish to nibble on the line a few times before they bite. Then reel in and collect my next catch.

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